Shipping Dates for the Blaze

[steener06]

Will the Blaze ship directly from the Fitbit website store the day it is released in stores or Amazon? or will they ship days before so it hopefuly or will arrive the day its relased everywhere else? What im getting at is on Amazon, you can pay 3.99$ (with prime memebership) and get free over night shipping there for getting the product WAY before "standard shipping" from the Fitbit website. That is unless Fitbit will ship it ahead of time. 

[ErickFitbit]

@steener06Great to see you around the Community!

At this time, all I can share is that Blaze will be shipping out in March as we haven't solidified a specific shipping date yet. In order to receive your Blaze as quickly as possible, I recommend purchasing it from our official store and selecting overnight shipping during checkout. Hope that helps! Blaze on! 

[racertempo]

Shipping to stores in March as well?  I have read some reports that say shipping starts in May, but those are CES reports.  Will stores such as Best Buy have them sometime in March?  

Thanks

[MatthewFitbit]

@racertempo We expect to ship both pre-orders and retailer inventory in March. So yes, you should see Blaze on store shelves that month as well!

[Rich_Laue]

With the other Fitbit models some users reported that they bought from stores within a cople days of the release. My local Target had them by the end of yhe first week. 

Fitbit ships them to the company and it is them , not Fitbits responsibility to distribute the units to their stores. I would suspect that they will be showing up pretty quickly. 

[mpacker]

I wouldn't expect it in March either. Fitbit is terrible with ship dates. Ordered an HR for my wife and it took3 months before they released them after their expected date. I've already ordered my blaze but if it gets here in April I'll be surprised 🙂

[Rich_Laue]

Interesting 4 days after the Charge was anounced to be shipping, people where reporting that they bought yhem in their loval store.

[mpacker]

Not the plum color HR. It was delayed and delayed

[MatthewFitbit]

@mpacker Hopefully it helps to hear that Fitbit is very aware of previous instances where shipping was delayed, and learned from that experience. Wedon't expect a repeat of that sort of wiating period.

[mpacker]

I hope so too 🙂

[Jojokayn]

I hope the shipping matter is cleared up also. The new Fitbit Blaze is in PLUM TOO???? Will we have to wait?

[SunsetRunner]

@Jojokayn

It's possible to pre-order the Blaze with Classic Band in black, blue or plum colour from the Fitbit Store.

Extra bands available to purchase as accessoires.

The Blaze is shipped in March.

[ErickFitbit]

@Jojokayn As @SunsetRunner mentioned above, you can already pre-order your Blaze with a plum strap from our official store. No waiting, necessary.

[mekamac]

I am curious as well when this is going to ship. On amazon it says under their pre-order that it will be shipped on March 15th. I asked on the fitbit facebook page and they couldn't tell me whether that was true or not.

[steener06]

Yes! this! I placed my order through Amazon because of all the horrible feedback im hearing about Fitbit's website. Not to mention, Amazon offers Free 2 Day shipping! AND for a small fee of $3.99 you can get overnight shipping. WAY WAY faster than Fitibit and ALOT cheaper! $20 some odd dollars for overnight No thanks fitbit!

[mekamac]

I think I am going to cancel my fitbit order and do just that. I don't get why it is a huge secret when they are planning of shipping the watch. Did amazon charge your card already or are you getting charged when it ships?

[steener06]

I would do that too. They charge you card when it ships. Right now the overnight is saying $8.99, but I'm almost positive that's just cause is in a pre order state. I think it goes down to $3.99 for prime members anyway. 2 day shipping is still free.

I don't get it either. Seriously is it some advertising trick? I would think of we pre order we should be getting the item BEFORE the general public cause we have committed a head of time.

[mekamac]

Now I'm really stuck. I was in a chat with a Fitbit rep today and they told me it was start to ship on March 5th. Honestly not sure what to believe.

[steener06]

Well I would imagine it would break even simply because Fitbits shipping times are S.L.O.W! Amazon may or may not ship the 5th as well. I'm personally going to stick with Amazon simply because they actually will ship faster and I won't pay Fitbit any extra money to get a faster shipping service.

[mekamac]

Decided to cancel my order on Fitbit and do it through Amazon.